People in the mainland are very concerned about the Omicron XBB.1.5 variant viral strain that has infected 40% of patients in the United States. They fear that XBB.1.5 will also erupt on a large scale in the mainland. Lead to ” involuntary diarrhea”, i.e. faecal incontinence, requiring “the accumulation of diapers”. A netizen from Hubei said that they found the diapers were out of stock, and although they didn’t intellectually believe the rumors, they also bought a batch online.
The Health Times, a subsidiary of the official People’s Daily newspaper, quoted Fang Bangjiang, director of three departments and five infectious disease wards at Wuhan Leishenshan Hospital and director of Emergency and Critical Care Institute of Traditional Medicine University Shanghainese, as if pointing out that diarrhea is one of the normal pathological reactions of viral flu. , there’s no need to panic or unfounded worries, and there’s no need to blindly hoard diapers and anti-diarrheal medications like montmorillonite powder.
XBB has an extremely low probability of a near-term pandemic
The China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a document introducing the situation of XBB.1.5 on WeChat public account, pointing out that from October to December last year, China found 199 imported cases of XBB, of which 4 were XBB. 1.5; in the same period, 16 local cases of XBB were found, all XBB .1, XBB.1.5 has not yet been found. China CDC pointed out that the current local virus strains in China are BA.5.2 and BF.7, and the neutralizing antibodies produced by people after infection will keep a relatively high level in the short term (3 months). XBB) have a better cross-protection effect”, and in China in the short term (3 months), “the possibility of large-scale epidemics caused by XBB series mutant strains, including XBB.1.5, is extremely low”.
CDC also pointed out that angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the main receptor for the new coronavirus to bind cells. In addition to being expressed in the lungs, it also has a high content in the intestinal tract. Various variants of the new coronaviruses coronaviruses, including the XBB series, both will infect intestinal mucosal cells, but the occurrence of intestinal clinical symptoms depends on the individual’s constitution. It is emphasized that XBB. clinical manifestations”.
The mainland had 7,685 new confirmed cases of the new crown the day before yesterday, Guangdong accounted for the most cases with 2,917, followed by Beijing with 820 cases, Fujian, Guangxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan and other places had hundreds of cases and Shanghai had 126 cases; 5 new deaths There are 1 case each in Heilongjiang, Shandong, Hubei, Guangdong and Sichuan. Taiwan yesterday added 33,330 local confirmed cases, 541 imported confirmed cases and 17 deaths. Imported cases are the highest since the epidemic in 2020. Macau reported 104 new confirmed cases and 5 deaths the day before yesterday.
Originally released on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/China/Biography xbb.1.5 Causes faecal incontinence – diapers become a new hoarding target/355710?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
